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Thelin now the fourth longest serving manager in the top flight.

Napoli win 2-0 and secure Italian title. McTominay and Gilmour both excellent tonight.

Hope it's an image of a giant seat being aimed at the Tims.

In fairness Jute there does appear to be some fairly strong legitimate family reasons for his exit. I actually thought he came across as a fairly decent guy in his interviews

Ok so a fair few drinks in and optimism levels are increasing. We ARE so fucking winning this Fuck the VicTims

He has had constant criticism recently, from the media and from sections of the Aberdeen support. The same people criticising him are some of the same ones telling us we had to give him time. I wanted Skovdahl gone quite early on. At the time I wrote the Aberdeen teletext column (oh yes, heady days) and I called for him to be sacked after the second of his 7-0 defeats to Celtic. That was when I found out how many people actually read that page because I got blasted for it by a lot of angry punters. I didn't think Ebbe's heart was really in it. I think he could have improved us long term, but wasn't going to get the backing he needed from the board, and it was probably a relief to him to head home. With Thelin though, it's a different feeling (as he might say). He's a year in, knows the team and league, and despite his calmness I sense a real hunger there. I truly believe, even if it doesn't happen this weekend (it will though), that he'll be a successful Aberdeen manager. I all honesty, I couldn't give a shit that we finished fifth. It was his first season, he has qualified for Europe, he has improved us (maybe not as much as people want), he's leading us into a cup final on Saturday. This "be prepared for some pain along the way", that was it, yet we were still better than four teams we finished below last season, including Hearts. And we'll be much better next season.